Do Gars Have Electro Magnetic Sensory Organs?

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Electric fishing is not what gars do, they don't have electro receptors. They do have taste buds on their snoute. So i have watchd little pok around with their snout like, you know, look around for food,. almost like a little long snouted dog looking for food. And that like a paddle fish would be, or like a sturgeon would be. Wait, sturgeons are electro sensing. It's true. I looked it up, and this is similar to how sharks go about locating prey. The dissolved metals and water conduct electricity better than air. But it's also seen, for some reason, in terrestrials like acidnas and

A long snout. Hundreds of teeth. Scales that could slice you. What is a gar and should we fear it? Should we hug it? One of the world’s most passionate and knowledgeable experts on this ancient, mysterious fish joins to make you fall in love with these slimy longbois. Dr. Solomon David is affable, charming, enthusiastic and absolutely shameless when it comes to fish puns. Slip into some hip waders and jump in the muck to learn all about a creature that -- despite decades of mudslinging -- is not a gar-bage fish. Also: why gar caviar is a hella bad idea.

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